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CURRICULUM VITAE Laura Dickinson (202) 994-0376 (T) [email protected] EDUCATION Yale Law School, J.D., 1996 Journals: Co-Editor-in-Chief, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities; Editor, Yale Law Journal Award: Khosla Memorial Fund for Human Dignity Prize for active engagement in advancing the values of human dignity in the international arena Activities: Teaching Assistant to Professor Harold Hongju Koh, Civil Procedure; Student Director, Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic Harvard College, A.B., Social Studies, 1992 Honors: Magna Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa Awards: Hoopes Prize for senior honors thesis; Harvard College Scholarship for academic achievement; Harvard National Scholar. Activities: Editorials Editor, Harvard Crimson; Chair, Phillips Brooks House Committee for Economic Change; Editor, Harvard Political Review ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2011 – present The George Washington University Law School Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law; Co‐Director, National Security Law Program 2008 – 2011 Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University Foundation Professor of Law; Director of the University’s Center for Law and Global Affairs 2001 – 2008 University of Connecticut School of Law Professor (2006-2008); Associate Professor (2001-2006) 2006 – 2007 Princeton University, Program in Law & Public Affairs Visiting Professor and Visiting Research Scholar JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS 1997 – 1998 United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC Law Clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun. Also performed full law clerk duties for Justice Stephen G. Breyer. 1996 – 1997 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Pasadena, CA Law Clerk to Judge Dorothy W. Nelson OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE 2014 – present New America Foundation, Washington, DC Future of War Fellow Prepare reports, papers and presentations on legal issues arising from new techniques and methods of warfare. 2005 Open Society Institute, New York, NY Consultant Evaluated effectiveness of program conducted by OSI grant recipient. 2004 International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, NY Consultant Contributed to report on effectiveness of hybrid courts. 1999 – 2000 United States Department of State, Washington, DC Senior Policy Advisor to Harold Hongju Koh, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Advised the Assistant Secretary on a wide variety of issues, including accountability and reconciliation in East Timor, the establishment of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, political detention in Haiti, trafficking in persons, domestic implementation of international human rights law, economic sanctions, and the death penalty. 1998 – 1999 Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC Appellate Litigation Fellow Drafted briefs in D.C. and Fourth Circuits, supervised students, and co-taught course in appellate advocacy. 1995 Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, NY Summer Associate 1994 – 1995 Yale Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic, New Haven, CT Student Director Organized research for federal and international cases, including several cases brought under the Alien Tort Statute. Drafted portions of briefs in federal court and Inter-American Commission for Human Rights on behalf of Haitian and Cuban refugees. 1994 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Pasadena, CA Extern to Judge Dorothy W. Nelson Wrote bench memoranda. 1992 Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA Summer Research Assistant for Professor Janet Halley 1991 Harvard Center for European Studies, Cambridge, MA Summer Grant Recipient Traveled to Paris to research original court records of women tried for murder in inter-war period. Wrote thesis on rhetoric of motherhood reflected in legal proceedings. SCHOLARSHIP BOOKS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS OUTSOURCING WAR AND PEACE: PROTECTING PUBLIC VALUES IN AN ERA OF PRIVATIZED FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Yale Univ. Press 2011). Co-editor, INTERNATIONAL LAW STORIES (Foundation Press, 2007). Editor, EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL LAW (Ashgate 2007). ARTICLES Book Review, Lindsey Cameron & Vincent Chetail, Privatizing War: Private Military and Security Companies Under Public International Law, in 108 AM. J. INT’L L. 589 (2014). Regulating the Privatized Security Industry: The Promise of Public/Private Governance, 63 EMORY L.J. 417-454 (2013). Civil Liability in the United States, in MONTREUX FIVE YEARS ON: AN ANALYSIS OF STATE EFFORTS TO IMPLEMENT MONTREUX DOCUMENT LEGAL OBLIGATIONS AND GOOD PRACTICES (2013). Outsourcing Covert Activities, 5 J. NAT’L SECURITY L. & POL. (2012). Privatization and Accountability, 7 ANN. REV. L. & SOC. SCI. 101 (Dec. 2011). Military Lawyers on the Battlefield: An Empirical Account of International Law Compliance, 104 AM. J. INT’L L. 1 (2010). Military Lawyers, Private Contractors, and the Problem of International Law Compliance, 42 NYU J. INT’L L. & POL’Y 355 (2010). Public Values/Private Contract, in GOVERNMENT BY CONTRACT (Jody Freeman & Martha Minow eds., Harvard Univ. Press, 2008). Accountability for Atrocities, 2007 PROC. OF THE AM. SOC. INT’L L. Legal Regulation of Private Military Contractors, in INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL (Cherif Bassiouni ed., 2007). Contract as a Tool for Regulating Private Military Companies, in FROM MERCENARIES TO MARKET (Simon Chesterman and Chia Lenhardt, eds., Oxford University Press 2007). Abu Ghraib, in INTERNATIONAL LAW STORIES (Noyes, Janis & Dickinson eds., Foundation Press, 2007). Toward a “New” New Haven School of International Law?, 32 YALE J. INT’L L. 545 (2007). Public Law Values in a Privatized World, 31 YALE J. INT’L L.. 384 (2006), (selected for inclusion in Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum). Filartiga’s Legacy in an Era of Military Privatization, 37 RUTGERS L. J. 703 (2006). Torture and Contract, 37 CASE WESTERN RESERVE J. INT’L L. 267 (2006). Government for Hire: Privatizing Foreign Affairs and the Problem of Accountability in International Law, 47 WM. & MARY L. REV. 135 (2005) (early draft selected for inclusion in American Society of International Law (ASIL) “new voices” panel). Terrorism and the Limits of Law: the View from Transitional Justice, in TERRORISM AND THE LIMITS OF LAW (Austin Sarat et al., eds., Stanford University Press, 2005). Accountability of State and Non-State Actors for Human Rights Abuses in the “War on Terror,” 12 TULSA J. INT’L & COMP. L. 53 (2005). The Promise of Hybrid Courts, 97 AM. J. INT’L L. 295 (2003). The Dance of Complementarity: Relationships Among Domestic, International, and Transnational Accountability Mechanisms in East Timor and Indonesia, in ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ATROCITIES: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESPONSES (Jane Stromseth ed., Transnational Press 2003). Using Legal Process to Fight Terrorism: Detentions, Military Commissions, International Tribunals, and the Rule of Law, 75 S. CAL. L. REV. 1407 (2002). Transitional Justice in Afghanistan: The Promise of Mixed Tribunals, 31 DENVER J. INT’L L. & POL’Y 23 (2002). The Social Psychology of Incitement (work-in-progress). OTHER PUBLISHED WRITING Outsourcing War and Security, Problems and Solutions, THE CONVERSATION, Jan. 12, 2015, available at http://theconversation.com/outsourcing-war-and-security-problems-and- solutions-35728. Co-author with Peter. S. Singer, Ask your 2016 Candidate These Questions on Drone Warfare, DEFENSE ONE, May 18, 2015, available at http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/05/ask-your-2016-candidate-these-questions- drone-warfare/113098/?oref=d-river. Co-author, MONTREUX FIVE YEARS ON: AN ANALYSIS OF STATE EFFORTS TO IMPLEMENT MONTREUX DOCUMENT LEGAL OBLIGATIONS AND GOOD PRACTICES, Dec. 2013. Outsourcing War and Peace: Six Questions for Laura Dickinson, BROWSINGS BLOG, HARPER’S MAGAZINE ONLINE, June 6, 2011, available at http://harpers.org/blog/2011/06/outsourcing-war-and-peace-six-questions-for-laura- dickinson/ A Comment on Medellin v. Texas, ASIL NEWSLETTER, June 2008. Obama and Private Military Contractors, OPEN LEFT BLOG, spring 2008, available at http://openleft.com. Obama and Private Military Contractors, BALKINIZATION BLOG, spring 2008, available at http://balkin.blogspot.com. Prosecuting Military Contractors: More a Problem of Law in Action than Law on the Books, BALKINIZATON BLOG, September 30, 2007, available at http://balkin.blogspot.com. Accountability and the Use of Contracts, INT’L PEACE OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER, 2006. Should the IST relocate outside Iraq? Yes, at least temporarily, SADDAM HUSSEIN TRIAL BLOG, Nov. 10, 2005, available at http://www.law.case.edu/saddamtrial. The IST should fulfill its promise as a true hybrid domestic-international court, SADDAM HUSSEIN TRIAL BLOG, Sept. 22, 2005, available at http://www.law.case.edu/saddamtrial. U.S. Credibility at Stake, HARTFORD COURANT, May 17, 2004. What’s the Rush With Appointing Federal Judges?, HARTFORD COURANT, Feb. 11, 2002. Create an International Terrorism Tribunal, HARTFORD COURANT, Oct. 12, 2001. An Interview with Laura Dickinson on Responses to September 11th, CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER, Oct. 5, 2001. Courts Can Avenge September 11th, LEGAL TIMES, Sep. 24, 2001 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED SCHOLARLY LECTURES Invited plenary speaker, Panel on Just War Theory and New Technology, New Military Technologies and the Expansion of Presidential Power, Arizona State University, May 2015 Invited speaker, Directly Confronting Congress with Presidential Power in the Foreign Affairs and War-Making Area, George Washington University School of Law, April 2015. Invited speaker, Congress’s Role in Protecting Human Rights, University of Baltimore International Law Symposium,